Moving Mars
{4.5/5} “I go to Earth hat in hand, to avoid disaster. We are only five millions. Earth is thirty thousand millions. Earth wants access to our resources. She wants to control our resources. The only way for us to maintain our freedom is to put our house in order, concede to Earth enough to put off the next confrontation a few more years, perhaps a decade. We are weak. Buying time is our best hope.”
Moving Mars by Greg Bear, published in 1993
Casseia Majumdar studies politics at the University of Mars. When she and 700 other students and professors are voided, she joins a resistance movement. They blow up a train track, march up to the university chancellor, and demand reinstatement. The chancellor says no and they’re detained. But then all the politicians in power are run out of town — and off the planet.
It’s about relationships between people and planets.
I like how people who live on Mars are called red rabbits.
It has terrific speculation, including a language called Legal Logic and a startling scientific discovery. It has a main character you’ll want to follow from Mars to Earth and back. Once you get to the last section, you won’t be able to put it down.
I’ve read 4 books by Bear. I previously reviewed Foundation and Chaos.